Alessandra Vigilante

Alessandra Vigilante is a Reader in Bioinformatics at the Centre for Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine, with a focus on genotype-phenotype interactions and data integration. She obtained her PhD in Bioinformatics in Naples (2008–2011) before moving to the UK to join Nicholas Luscombe's group, first at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute as a visiting student (2011–2012) and then as a postdoctoral fellow at UCL (2012–2017). Alessandra's group has significant expertise and experience in the analysis and integration of large-scale genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic data (e.g. single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq datasets, ChIP-seq), and in the implementation of novel computational methods for various bespoke analyses to gain biological insights. Alessandra is actively involved in a broad network of collaborations to develop multidisciplinary approaches to research, working with faculty members within King's and other research institutes. Alessandra is Head of the Hub for Appli